Community variant
Short chess
Not too complicated
This is a user-catalogued casual variant. Technical details such as board size, FEN, pieces, and hand rules are defined in the Fairy-Stockfish variants.ini block below.
Generated rule overview
This variant inherits its base rules from `chess` and overrides the settings shown below.
Board and setup
Pieces and movement
- The piece set used on the board is: king (k), rook (r), bishop (b), knight (n), custom piece 1 (p) and archbishop (a).
- custom piece 1 (p) is a custom piece with Betza movement `fWfcF`.
Move rules
- Castling is allowed.
Promotion
- Promotions are available in the configured promotion zones. The the promotion region for White is all squares on rank 7 and the promotion region for Black is all squares on rank 1.
- The pieces that can promote are: custom piece 1 (p).
- Promotion choices are both sides: rook (r), knight (n), bishop (b) and archbishop (a).
Piece movement
These diagrams show custom pieces and known Fairy-Stockfish built-in fairy pieces from White's perspective on a compact preview board. Some special moves, especially hoppers and game-state-dependent moves, can still depend on blockers or game state.
fWfcF
move
capture
move or capture
initial only
hopper target
Fairy-Stockfish rules
ini
[mysevencamel2:chess]
maxFile = 7
maxRank = 7
# ุชู
ุชุนุฏูู ุงูุฌููุฏ ุฅูู ุงูุฑู
ุฒ ุงูููุงุณู P ููุฃุจูุถ ู p ููุฃุณูุฏ ู
ุน ุงูุญูุงุธ ุนูู ุงูููุฑุฉ
startFen = rnbknbr/ppppppp/7/7/7/PPPPPPP/RNBKNBR w KQkq - 0 1
# ุชุฎุตูุต ุญุฑูุฉ ุงูุญุฑู p ููุชุญุฑู ุฎุทูุฉ ูุงุญุฏุฉ ููุฃู
ุงู
ููุฃูู ูุทุฑูุงู (ู
ูุน ุงูุฎุทูุชูู ููุงุฆูุงู)
customPiece1 = p:fWfcF
# ุฑุจุท ุงููุทุนุฉ p ุจูุธุงู
ุงูุชุฑููุฉ ุงูููุงุณููู ููุดุทุฑูุฌ ุนูุฏ ุงูุตู ุงูุฃุฎูุฑ
pawnTypes = p
promotionRegionWhite = *7
promotionRegionBlack = *1
# ุชูุนูู ูุทุนุฉ ุงูุฃู
ูุฑุฉ (a) ูุงูุชุจููุช
archbishop = a
promotionPieceTypes = r n b a
castling = true